While we are on the subject, Fortunately, kernel 2.4.17 automatically switches on the UDMA modes for me. Is there any way of speeding up the "Checking for new hardware" bit. It is the slowest individual task that occurs during booting (about 4-5 seconds).
Ed-T. Hoyt wrote: >On Saturday 09 March 2002 02:41 pm, you wrote: > >>> > > > ide0=0x1f0 ide0=dma ide0=autotune >>> > > > >>> > >>> Is it safe? How much does it gain in speed? >>> >>Not completly, autotune would hang with my chipset (SiS). Hdparm works >>fine, dramatic speed increase - I run it from rc.local - RTFM 1st though. >>Never tried drakopt. >>If autotune hangs, you can just boot from a rescue disk & edit/chroot/run >>lilo. >> > > >You can try the first two and not use ide0=autotune. > >Best to try it from a LILO prompt at boot before modifying /etc/lilo.conf. > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
